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Strategies & Market Trends : Systems, Strategies and Resources for Trading Futures -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jerry Olson who wrote (39360)	10/28/1999 10:00:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 44573

Daytrading aggressively is dangerous. So is driving three kids to three different schools with 8 contracts Short on GDP day, it appears. I would not bet on me, I never hold overnight in real trading and doing it here is killing me. But like Tom says, it's a way to test stuff out harmlessly. That system I used before called for a Long if the MNarket hit 1313.20; figures it would work while I was unable to trade it. I guess I could have put in an OCO before I left....it had two scenarios....but I really was still on the fence about entering any trades yet. When I have a bad day mid week or later I usually take the rest of the week off. My real trading yesterday was okay, but the loss in the contest trade, oddly enough, put me in a frame of mind to back off for some reason. Anyway, the gap Open looked like a fair gamble to cut back on my paper losses from the overnight trade.